Jan 18 Watch Texting for Charity: Cell Phone Users Sending Relief for Haiti In just five days, the Red Cross has raised more than $21 million for the relief effort in Haiti through text messages. As Tom Bearden reports, cellphones have emerged as the new big player in charitable giving. Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch Relief Effort Improves in Haiti While Security Concerns Linger In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten discusses the pace of the relief effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, security concerns in the capital, and complaints about U.S. management at the Port-au-Prince airport. Continue watching
Jan 18 Haiti's History Is One of Pain and Perseverance By Talea Miller As Haiti confronts a disastrous earthquake -- which ravaged much of Port-au-Prince -- the country's history, politics and culture are coming to a new light, and may help shape how the country emerges from its latest trial. Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch Aid Groups Look to Break up Bottlenecks After Haiti Quake While 7,000 U.S. forces were scheduled to be in Haiti by the end of Monday, the U.N. is seeking to send additional peacekeepers to help break bottlenecks choking the aid effort. Jon Snow of ITN reports. Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch Six Days Without Sunlight: Woman Survives in Bank's Rubble The arrival of fresh aid was a welcome sight in Haiti on Monday, but aid workers struggled to get food, water, and medical supplies to survivors of last week's earthquake. Bill Neely of Independent Television News reports on one woman's… Continue watching
Jan 17 Obama Authorizes Military Reserves for Haiti Response By Talea Miller President Barack Obama Sunday issued an executive order mobilizing selected military reserves, including medical staff to work from hospital ships and Coast Guard personnel, to bolster aid efforts in Haiti. He wrote it is "necessary to augment the active Armed… Continue reading
Jan 16 Obama, Bush, Clinton Join Forces for Haiti Appeal By Jason Breslow President Barack Obama joined predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the White House Saturday to announce a fundraising appeal to benefit Haiti in "one of the largest relief efforts in our history," Mr. Obama said. Continue reading
Jan 15 Sights and Sounds of the Haiti Disaster By News Desk Friday's NewsHour ended with a look at the sights and sounds of the Haiti earthquake disaster. Watch that segment below or browse NewsHour coverage of Haiti this week, both on-air and online, here. Continue reading
Jan 15 Clinton: Haiti's 'Ironic' Twist of Fate Embodied in Monday NewsHour Report By Maureen Hoch During a press briefing late Friday afternoon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took questions on the relief effort in Haiti and announced plans to travel to the beleaguered country on Saturday. She also referenced a segment the NewsHour aired Monday… Continue reading
Jan 15 Journalist: Anger, But No Violence Seen in Haiti By Hari Sreenivasan We caught up again Friday with freelance journalist Ansel Herz, a radio reporter who has been living in Haiti for the last four months. He addressed various reports of violence increasing in the streets of Haiti. "I've seen no weapons… Continue reading